Dead Showers..!!!

Seems the rain department at the god's government is less pleased with chennai. While all the other states surounding this metro are enjoying the pour down, people of chennai still look at the sky with a question whats our culpa..?
The clouds over chennai city begged for a bath, or some one from the rain department corrupted his hands, it showered the metro city yesterday.

I was prety happy with the sound of showers hitting my roof, i looked out side, through the window. The rain aint a stranger to me. Memories flashed my mind, i was 10 and was gazin out side through the grilled door at my grand ma's house, tasting grand ma's hand made salted mangos that she had set aside few months before the rain started. The speed of showers increased and the water was flowing from my compound down the water lanes to the roads and ultimately ended up in the smal river that was next to my house. The rain water looked red and yello because of the red soil that got pulled in the flow, and when the showers calmed down, we the kids, ran out. Weting our selfs to the light drizle, made paper boats and put them in the water flowing down the lane, ran splashing the water with legs at each other, shook the small trees so that the rain drops hid in the leaves fall like heavy showers, and at the end of the day run to the pond next by and swim there till the sun gave its empire.


Some thing realy shook my sences and i realised i was in chennai, the showers were almost done, but the kids next door never steped out, even the dogs and cats next street dint bother to step out, i went down to my veranda and saw salman coming running towards my room jumping from stone to stone so that the water doesnt touch his feet. And i gazed into the water, it was black, dark and stinky, i thought i would vomit any moment, i looked down the street, water there werent any lanes where water was flowing, d dark pits on the road had captured the purest water that the planet gives and changed its color to the most cheapest one. All the waste in the road side, all the dead smal creatures and all sorts of shit flew in wid the water.

With a sad mind i went to my terace, looked up at the sky, the clouds had disappeared, and i thought why shouldnt they, and i got my answer why the rain dept in god's governance didnt bless chennai, and i prayed to god please no more rain...!!!


T.R.K